Welcome to the Czech Republic

Welcome all players to Czech Republic. Please be advise that there is strictly NO TRAINING.

It's Saturday at the action end of the world and after a few days hanging around Prague we're all itching to get started. We had a training session on Thursday morning to get used to the area. On Friday we lined up a practise match against New Zealand's Duke (who we played at the NZ Beat Up that I've posted about earlier) after Chad Larson Experience pulled out of their scheduled match against us because of injuries. Fortunately, however, Friday was also the day where we were introduced to the beautiful Czech custom of NO TRAINING. With this new cultural sensitivity under our belts we went to the pool. Going to the pool is like living through a Kafka novel. Amazing.

Today we're going on a tour of the fields to get our bearings and find super important things like toilets, water tanks and places where NO TRAINING will be conducted. Plus, we're testing out public transport between the two fields sites. We're at the beautiful, soviet inspired vrsovice area in Slavia (which is a suburb-type thing South-East of the city. They have a saying in this part of town: "Is concrete, is Slavia!", which is a fine way of expressing their love for their local architecture. Basically, this is a haven for all those planners who always wanted to make all of their buildings brown concrete rectangles. All shades of brown are represented in the Slavia region. The other fields are at Strahov on the other side of the Vltava river and up on top of the hills that run along the western banks.

Tomorrow is GAME ON! We play Ah Ouh Puc, the top French team, then Squal, the second Japanese team. Ah Ouh Puc star recently returned Canberrans Kelly Kidman and Andrew Lance who have been living in Paris until recently. We hope they're just as excited as us about the improvement in ACT ultimate over the last few years.

I'm off to buy a fridge now. Seriously. We at Kaboom don't stuff around when it comes to keeping our milk cold.